Buckley

The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

Sam Tanenhaus

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Random House USA Inc
03 June 2025

Biography: historical, political & military; History; History of the Americas; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies; Political leaders & leadership

More

than two decades in the making, the definitive biography of William F.

Buckley Jr. tells the story of America’s greatest conservative and the

rise and fall of the movement he led.

In 1951, with the publication of God and Man at Yale,

a scathing attack on his alma mater, twenty-five-year-old William F.

Buckley Jr. instantly seized the public stage—and commanded it for the

next half century as he led a new generation of activists and ideologues

to the peak of political power and cultural influence.

Ten

years before his death in 2008, Buckley chose prize-winning biographer

Sam Tanenhaus to tell the full story of his life and times, granting him

extensive interviews, entrée to his intimate circle, and unrestricted

access to his most private papers.

Thus began a deep investigation into the vast and often hidden universe of Bill Buckley and the modern conservative revolution.

Buckley vividly captures its subject in all his facets and phases—founding editor of National Review, syndicated

columnist and TV debater, ally of Joseph McCarthy and Barry Goldwater,

mentor to Ronald Reagan, wisecracking candidate for mayor of New York,

bestselling novelist and memoirist, jet-setting clubman and socialite,

downhill skier and sailboat racer.

Tanenhaus

also explores the private and darker life of Bill Buckley: secret CIA

missions, complicated friendships with other prominent figures,

including Richard Nixon and Watergate felon Howard Hunt, and late in

life, Buckley’s lonely struggle to hold together a movement coming apart

over AIDS, the culture wars, and the invasion of Iraq.

Majestic

in its sweep, lushly detailed, rich in ideas and argument, packed with

news and revelations, Buckley is the authoritative account of an

American giant and the world he made.

By: Sam Tanenhaus
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780375502347
ISBN 10: 0375502343
Pages: 1024
Publication Date: 03 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sam Tanenhaus, the former editor of The New York Times Book Review, is the author of the national bestseller Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His feature articles and essays have appeared in the Atlantic, New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and many other publications in the U.S. and abroad. He is currently a contributing writer for the Washington Post.